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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Install Linux Kernel 3.7.4 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Another update for Kernel 3.7 series has been made available
recently which brings various bug fixes and improvements. As usual, we
have updated our simple bash script to be able to install Linux Kernel 3.7.4 with just a few commands on the terminal.
But let's first see some of the changes and fixes in this latest kernel taken from the changelog:

USB: io_ti: Fix NULL dereference in chase_port()

drm/radeon: fix a bogus kfree

drm/radeon: fix NULL pointer dereference in UMS mode

ALSA: usb - fix race in creation of M-Audio Fast track pro driver

s390/time: fix sched_clock() overflow

sh: Fix FDPIC binary loader

mxs: uart: fix setting RTS from software

staging: vt6656: Fix inconsistent structure packing

staging: wlan-ng: Fix clamping of returned SSID length

Linux Kernel 3.7.4 Installation

To install Linux Kernel 3.7.4 (Ubuntu 12.10/12.04 or older and Linux
Mint 14/13 or older) in your system, open the terminal and enter these
commands at your own risk:

If you have encountered any troubles while installing this kernel in a
system having the Nvidia driver installed, you can try to fix it by
enabling text mode (CTRL+ALT+F2) and executing these commands: